11/28/2020 4:55:22 PM Court Holds Lanham Act Defendant Liable for Manipulated Product Reviews By Terri Seligman The US district court in Utah recently issued interesting Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in a Lanham Act case addressing, among...
11/20/2020 12:00:00 AM The Winner of the Console Wars is…Light Beer? By Frances Jensen Bud Light has entered the chat. Anheuser-Busch’s popular brand of light beer, Bud Light, announced its own video game console named the...
11/11/2020 12:00:00 AM Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law By Jeremy Goldman Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law Media companies and publishers may finally...
11/10/2020 11:20:26 PM High Scores and High Stakes: How a Defamation Suit Emerged from Donkey Kong By Jennifer Batista In April 2018, Twin Galaxies, an organization whose video game leaderboard records have been historically recognized as official records...
11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM Capote Charity Claims Copyright By Matthew Samet The Trustee for the Truman Capote Literary Trust, established as a charitable trust under the will of prolific author Truman Capote, sued...
11/5/2020 11:53:20 PM Anita White Strikes Back With Second Trademark Suit By Matthew Samet In July 2020, after country music group Lady Antebellum changed its moniker to “Lady A”, Lady Antebellum filed a trademark lawsuit in the...
11/3/2020 9:49:40 PM TTAB Refuses Registration of .SUCKS By Kimberly Maynard In a precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board refused to register .SUCKS, holding that the generic top-level domain...
11/2/2020 5:50:15 PM Federal Circuit Clarifies Standing For Trademark Cancellation Proceedings By Kimberly Maynard In Corcamore LLC v. SFM LLC, the Federal Circuit clarified the standard for bringing a cancellation proceeding under 15 U.S.C. § 1064...